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Standard Atlas of Kent County, Michigan, Including a Plat Book of the Villages, Cities and Townships of the County. Map of the State, United States and World. Patrons Directory, Reference Business Directory and Departments Devoted to General Information. Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1907. Folio, approximately 18 x 15 inches. Original blind-stamped dark blue cloth boards over thick beveled boards. Profusely illustrated with full-color double-page township plat maps, sectional plat maps of the City of Grand Rapids and environs, outline map of Kent County, state map of Michigan, map of the United States and the World, plus a Patrons' Reference Directory of Kent County and extensive advertising section. Condition: Binding is loose with the textblock partially detached from the boards; covers worn through at corners and along edges with significant fraying and cloth loss exposing the red board beneath; spine perished. Front and rear free endpapers and several preliminary leaves chipped, edge-torn, and creased; table of contents leaf with marginal tears not affecting text. Internal plat maps and township maps are generally clean and bright with vibrant original hand-coloring; scattered foxing, light soiling, and edge wear to leaves; a few leaves loose or starting. Pencil notations to endpapers. Comes from a smoking household and carries a tobacco odor. A complete working copy in poor binding but with the maps themselves in good, legible, brightly colored condition. Complete. A plat atlas of Kent County, Michigan, published at the height of the golden age of American county atlases. Includes detailed landowner plat maps of every township in the county â " Ada, Algoma, Alpine, Bowne, Byron, Caledonia, Cannon, Cascade, Courtland, Gaines, Grattan, Lowell, Nelson, Oakfield, Paris, Plainfield, Solon, Sparta, Spencer, Tyrone, Vergennes, Walker, and Wyoming â " with every farm and rural property identified by owner's surname, an essential resource for genealogists tracing Kent County families. Sectional street maps cover the City of Grand Rapids and environs in extraordinary detail, including East Grand Rapids, South Grand Rapids, Reeds Lake, Walker, the Kent Country Club, Greenwood and Washington Park Cemeteries, and named additions and subdivisions throughout the city. Village and town plats include Sand Lake, Alto, Fallasburg, Alpine, Grandville, Plainfield, Peter Vetting's Plat, Rockford, Lowell, Cedar Springs, Caledonia, Sparta, Cannonsburg, Ada, and many more. The extensive Patrons' Reference Directory lists Kent County residents alphabetically with section, township, post office, and biographical notes â " invaluable for family history research. Includes a robust advertising section documenting Grand Rapids and Kent County businesses circa 1907, from furniture manufacturers and breweries to liveries, hardware stores, and attorneys. Geo. A. Ogle & Co. of Chicago was the preeminent American publisher of county plat atlases in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the 1907 Kent County volume is among the finest of their Michigan productions. Satisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!
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